Jayce vs Kalista
How to Beat Kalista as Jayce
based on 429 Jayce vs Kalista matchupsHow We Analyze LoL Champion Counters
Jayce vs Kalista Matchup Summary
Best Jayce vs Kalista Counter Build
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Guide to Countering Kalista as Jayce
Tips for Playing as Jayce against Kalista
For increased range and damage, try casting Shock Blast through the Acceleration Gate.
If you find yourself taking lots of damage, try using Jayce's Hammer Stance, as it grants you additional defenses.
Be sure to switch stances often. It will enhance your attacks and grant you quick bursts of speed.
Advice to Win Against Kalista
Kalista's mobility is dependent upon attacking. This means it is low when she is outside of her attack range and that Attack Speed slows reduce the amount of distance she can cover in an engagement.
If you can break line of sight from Kalista, including through brush, her basic attacks will miss you, falling harmlessly to the ground.
Kalista cannot cancel her basic attack wind up. While she is very mobile, this offers a window to land spells on her if you anticipate when she will begin attacking.
Jayce vs Kalista Counter Stats
How to Counter Kalista with Jayce in LoL
The stats shown here show some strategic Jayce versus Kalista counter statistics that may help us distinguish the differences and similarities between the pair. Jayce’s KDA ratio ([kills + assists] / deaths) of NaN is greater than Kalista’s ratio of NaN, highlighting that Jayce may be more central to his team's team fighting capacity than Kalista..
Jayce often has a slightly smaller longest kill spree than his counter does. Typically, he receives a similar amount of damage to Kalista. This often reflects different amounts of tankyness; however, it can also illustrate that the one champ has less mobility and thus is unable to flee from additional damage when engaged or poked.
Differences between Jayce and Kalista
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Who is Better, Jayce or Kalista?
Both LoL champions are great champions. Both have their pros and cons. In the game's current meta, Jayce usually loses when playing against Kalista, with a 48.3% win rate. As a result, Jayce makes a poor counter to Kalista.
While Jayce does have a lower winrate compared to Kalista, when on opposite teams, Jayce also has a greater learning curve that makes him a more time consuming character to pick up and master. You should be careful when picking Jayce into Kalistaas his relative depth means that you may not be able to reach his full potential without a lot of practice beforehand.
Moreover, Jayce has only a small amount of utility and CC, a similar amount to Kalista. This makes her just as valuable during team fights, especially when fighting champions with a ton of burst damage.
While there is not a single best champion overall in League of Legends, in Jayce vs Kalista matchups, Kalista is the better champ with a lower win rate, similar champion depth, and a similar amount of utility to help out your teammates during late stage team fights.
Jayce is a somewhat poor counter for Kalista. Focus your play on maximizing your gold and cs and destroying objectives. If you are able to do that, you should do very well as Jayce against Kalista.
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Further Insights to Win this Matchup
To learn all of the intricacies of Jayce in order to counter Kalista during both the lane and mid / late game phases of League of Legends, you should keep reading to learn a few extra tips and tricks for this matchup. If you listen to the build and tips shown here, you should increase your win rate by a lot and be closer to League of Legends pro players.
Jayce usually picks up a similar amount of CS as Kalista. Champions who on average don't acquire many minion kills usualy don't have to have much CS to be valuable teammates, such as sup champs. They are capable of scaling well off of their skills, stats, and first items alone. Yet, champs with large amounts of CS, such as hyper-carries, usually require a lot of items to be effective. In either situation, try to surpass the numbers shown here to do well.
The best items to focus on in your Jayce versus Kalista build consist of Muramana, Youmuu's Ghostblade, and Serylda's Grudge. When Jayce included at least these three items in his build, he did significantly better when facing Kalista than with many other common item sets. In fact, Jayce had an average win rate of 48.3% when playing against Kalista with these items in his kit.
To have the greatest chance of vanquishing Kalista as Jayce, you should equip the Phase Rush, Manaflow Band, Absolute Focus, Gathering Storm, Biscuit Delivery, and Magical Footwear runes from the Sorcery and Inspiration rune sets. Out of all the rune sets players picked for Jayce vs Kalista fights, this composite of runes resulted in the highest win rate. In fact, these runes gave a 48.3% win rate overall.
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